Thread: Report on building a GIS in the Netherlands (2008-2011)

In Holland we think the 50's were a Cultural Wasteland too. Only we didnot have the English to blame. Just ourselves. But we corrected that in the 60's and 70's and the 80's and the 90's. Not now anymore. Ever more repression (is my leftish opinion) after the murder on a rightwing politician and a movie director.

greetings, Ab

But then again ... sometimes something good appears where people show their tolerance and ability to understand differences ... this talks about the two.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/...326261,00.html

As is said in the interview: you have to learn tolerance. And that doesnot come easy. Even after a few hundred years of Implemented Enlightenment I see a lot of cracks in Holland. But we must keep moving..

Ab

Exactly ... the big drive is that most people want a simple and non stressful life and co-exist happily with others.

Even if some guy is wanting to blow up a bus ... he is doing it for the above reason. So the question becomes more about choosing means that really work to achieve those ends.

That wish for a quiet (or slightly noisy) happy life is the hidden power that works in the background.

MIK

I think we'll have to agree to disagree about the motives for blowing up busses MIK.
I read it as a grab at power over others, not peace with them. Something which nearly
all of us do in our own, more-or-less peaceful ways...
cheers
AJ

Between all the interesting posts I succeeded in making some progress. Sanded the outside of the hull, filled all holes (a big one twice), epoxied thoe outside twice. Decided on the color of the hull and bought it (today). Will do one more layer of epoxy this weekend. Next wednesday first coat of primer. That starts the real serious business: painting. I will ask Joost for advice

Greetings,

Ab

Howdy AJ .. they want their lives to be peaceful! They don't realise that to get it then they have to create peace in other people's lives too )

MIK

Howdy Ab,

Nice to hear progress. And nice that Joost is there for painting advice ... his boat looks really good. And nice if your paint is up to the standard of that great varnishing you are doing.

MIK

The last few weeks have seen some slow progress: fairing, sanding, painting, fairing, sanding, painting takes some time . Also my job demands more time: because of the financial crisis I have more work than ever. Thanks to the banks, who want ever more and sooner answers, papers to be filled in, more "no" to clients asking for a loan etc etc. But here are some pictures. Status: today I took a day off and did the first layer of the final paint. Two or three more to go. I also did some work on the rudder, leather on the yard and boom and mast (I know, the glass should be enough. But not for me).

Planning is to launch in the first or second week of august, when I have a holiday. (My wife and daughter approved of going to London for a week and see a musical and some museums and do some shopping....I have asked the bank to have a higher limit on my card. Unfortunately they approved. To my wife...Then we have two weeks in our house in the Eifel, where I can (under strict conditions of course) work on the GIS.

The pictures come later: problems uploading. I will try later in the evening.

Here they are (I tried to upload the original RAW pictures. They were to big):

pictures 1, 2: after one coat of primer
picture 3: rudder, ready for the gudgeons. Because of the size I had do make the rudder a bit smaller where the gudgeons are attached.
picture 4, 5: after sanding.
picture 6: after second coat of primer
picture 7,8: one coat of the topcoat applied. I had to paint the rudder and centre board, because the glass was not applied very well. First time I did that. On the mast it went a bit better. On the chines it went perfect. Good learning curve, I guess.

Greetings, Ab

Looking at the pictures, you can see a hard spot at BH #3 : I did not notice that building and sanding. I noticed a hard spot at the butt strap while fairing and sanding, but I could correct that with some filler (2 components). Added some weight though . But not as much as using mahogany all over .

Ab

That does look very nice indeed! Looks like a very nice gloss too.

Is it a light blue or is it the camera changing the colour a bit?

Best wishes
Michael

Originally Posted by Boatmik

That does look very nice indeed! Looks like a very nice gloss too.

Is it a light blue or is it the camera changing the colour a bit?

Best wishes
Michael

though a boat is supposed to be female, the colour surely shows it is a boy.

greetings ab

Today I will post the last building pictures and start a new thread: Die Jungfraufahrt (maiden trip) of the 2nd Dutch GIS. Last wednesday, 2nd August I did the last building jobs on my GIS. Actually it was not building, but painting: the name on the stern and some anti-skid (sugar on varnish) on the bottom.

The anti-skid went just fine

The name took some more thinking. First: what should the name be? I wanted a name thad had to do with boats, sounded nice, had some connection to Australia (thanks for MIK) and to Holland (where the GIS was not builded). After long thinking, reading talking to some friends we (SWMBO and me) decided on DUYFKEN, the Dutch yacht that "discovered" Australia.

As I am not a good painter, I decided to make a template of the name on my laptop, choosing a nice but not too difficult font, printed it, cut out the name and glued it to the stern with spray. All went fine . Then I painted the template, waited about half an hour and removed the template. The result even surprised me! Even now I donot know what happened. But I decided that it looks very, very nice, specially from some distance.